[DM-MUG] How to add metadata to Mail emails to help with Spotlight searches.

[Bryan Baker]

Now, this looks promising:

http://www.jeffporten.com/jpsite/software/messagelaser? 
50@939.eQDXaYDrqVt.0@

It's called Message Laser and uses applescript to add spotlight  
metadata (which is what I was thinking all along would be better).

"MessageLaser 0.1
An AppleScript which allows arbitrary tagging of messages in Mail.app.  
Select any number of messages in Mail.app, and you'll be prompted for  
whichever comments you want to add. These will be added to the Finder  
Spotlight comments of the files for these messages, and will  
immediately be available in global Spotlight searches. "


On May 19, 2005, at 3:45 AM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

> 	One reason, of many, that I still use Eudora to get my main mail is  
> that I can edit the subject lines - so that if an email comes in  
> saying alot of good stuff but not saying a client's name or topic for  
> instance, I just open the message and alter subject line = put in  
> "Smith harassment same-sex" and even if the actual contents of the  
> email did not include those ideas, it does now.  Spotlight so far CAN  
> identify emails containing search wording but not perfectly yet  
> [mainly can find the folders they are in, not the messages totally].  
> Eudora is changing to upgrade to Tiger compatible Spotlight capacity,  
> but Mail is now that way.  If a Mail message had those words in its  
> body or subject, they'd show up in the spotlight.  But, if they did  
> not, then they would not.  So, as with other documents I've mentioned  
> earlier [where you can Get Info and add metadata in the comments  
> section] it's easy enough to do this....but I can't figure out how in  
> Mail.
>
> 	I sent this feature request in to Apple a year or more ago and have  
> since then, without results.  I can't believe it is impossible to do,  
> but went into a Message in Mail and ther is nothing in the menu bar  
> that allows me to do any editting of a Mail message to accomplish  
> this.
>
> 	Does anyone have any other ideas???  Yes, I know I can forward a  
> message back to me with the subject line changed but that just creates  
> a duplicate message and is, really, more hassle than just being able  
> to edit a subject line or otherwise add metadata.
>
> 	Ideas.???
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